Unity can't show the global menu item for some gnome apps

Bug #1423855 reported by Michael Blennerhassett
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Won't Fix
High
Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Nominated for Trusty by Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
unity (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
High
Unassigned
Nominated for Trusty by Marco Trevisan (Treviño)

Bug Description

Unity can't show the global menu item for some gnome apps.

For example, the 'terminal' menu for gnome-terminal, or the 'calculator' menu for gnome-calculator cannot be opened. Other menus can be displayed (file, edit,...)

This is a recent regression I think.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: unity 7.3.1+15.04.20150219.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.18.0-13.14-generic 3.18.5
Uname: Linux 3.18.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.16.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Feb 20 21:14:01 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-31 (20 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Michael Blennerhassett (mjblenner) wrote :
Stephen M. Webb (bregma)
Changed in unity:
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
milestone: none → 7.3.2
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in unity:
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
Changed in indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-appmenu - 15.02.0+15.04.20150302-0ubuntu1

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indicator-appmenu (15.02.0+15.04.20150302-0ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * IndicatorAppmenu: ensure we emit "entry-added/removed" signals
    after/before creating/destroying WindowMenu (LP: #1423855)
 -- CI Train Bot <email address hidden> Mon, 02 Mar 2015 22:36:54 +0000

Changed in indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Adam Dingle (adam-yorba) wrote :

It's fantastic to see this fixed - this bug was a major problem. Thanks so much!

Stephen M. Webb (bregma)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 7.3.2 → none
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